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How Electric Companies Are Supporting Energy Conservation Efforts

Women Entrepreneurs Can

State and local governments and utility companies offer various energy efficiency programs that can help you save on your energy bills. Lighting and refrigeration are great places to start for significant carbon cuts, with LED lights saving 110 terawatt-hours by 2030, about the total current electricity consumption of the Netherlands.

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The 2018 State of Conversion Optimization Report

ConversionXL

Female CROs seem to be younger; they’re equally distributed in the age groups 20–30 and 30–40. Four countries—United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Canada (ordered by number of respondents)—account for 54% of all responses. Almost 50% of the CRO population is in the 30–40 age group. of the total.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Governments are sovereign and can make whatever decision they want in their market regardless of international trade rule. The Government can call it whatever they want, but here’s a suggestion. Corporate bribery.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

They enabled companies to comply with local government laws – for example to allow foreign subsidiaries to transfer manufacturing technology from the U.S. IBM’s research center in Zurich, GM’s research center in Israel, Toyota in the U.S are examples. These remote R&D labs offered companies four benefits.

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New Power: An Interview with Henry Timms

Startup Lessons Learned

Their research and conversations took place all around the world and included everyone from the heads of intelligence agencies in Washington to frontline health workers in the Netherlands. What's emerging is the new power world, which is much more about things that are made by participation, about upload, and about distribution models.

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International Education Priorities for Developing Countries | Elite vs Masses | Inside Higher Ed

Campus Entrepreneurship

Ritzen, the former Dutch minister of education, argued that the symposium should encourage every developing country to develop at least one major university — “centers of excellence” — to ensure that they are positioned to produce as well as distribute knowledge, and to play on a world stage.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google.